come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto ber, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.

Rz. I have sinned. p. xxviii.

Lesson II.

So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the

said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people. And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay,

my lord, thou man of GOD, do not lie unto thine handmaid. And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. Ry. Hearken. p. xxix.

THURSDAY.

Of the 2nd Book of Kings. Lesson I. Chaps. vi. and vii.

rest.

sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of GOD, which passeth by us continually. Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

Ry. Thou hast heard. p. xxviii.
Lesson III.

AND it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there. And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called |

that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

Ry. Prepare. p. xxvi.
Lesson II.

AND the king said unto her, What

aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy

son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him:

and she hath hid her son. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. Then he said, GoD do so SO and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with

him.

Ry. God is the hearer. p. xxvi.
Lesson III.

AND the king set a man from before him but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him? And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should

I wait for the LORD any longer? Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, TOmorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

Ry. The LORD that. p. xxvii.
FRIDAY.

Of the 1st Book of Kings.

Lesson I. Chap. viii.

THEN spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of GOD and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that

the woman returned out of the land of

the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

A

Ry. Saul hath slain. p. xxvii.
Lesson II.

ND the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of GOD, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was her's, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now. Ry. Ye mountains. p. xxvii. Lesson III.

AND Elisha came to Damascus;

and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of GoD is come hither. And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of GOD, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die. Ry. I took thee. p. xxvii.

SATURDAY.

Of the 2nd Book of Kings.

Lesson I. Chap. ix. AND Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets,

and words, for they issued in positive | action. Who then drowned the whole world by bringing on it a deluge, and wrought that awful shipwreck and general destruction of our race? Who rained down those lightnings and fiery shafts upon the land of Sodom? Who overwhelmed the whole host of Egypt in the sea? Who burnt up the con

gregation of Abiram? Who smote with the pestilence those seventy thousand for the sin of David? Was it not God who brought all this and more upon them?

Rz. vi. I took thee. p. xxvii.
Rz. vii. I have sinned. p. xxviii.
Ry. viii. Two Seraphim. p. xxviii.
MONDAY.

Of the 2nd Book of Kings.

Lesson I. Chap. xi.

AND when Athaliah the mother of

Ahaziah saw that her son was

dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the

guard; so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

Ry. Thou hast heard. p. xxviii.
Lesson III.

AND they took every man his men

that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD. And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the

temple, along by the altar and the temple. And he brought forth the him, and gave him the testimony; king's son, and put the crown upon and they made him king and anointed and said, GOD save the king. and they clapped their hands,

him;

Of the 2nd Book of Kings. Lesson I. Chap. xii.

reign over the land.

Ry. Remember. p. xxviii.

Lesson II.

AND the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son. And he commanded them, saying, This is the

began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. And Jehoash did that which

was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Ry. LORD, if Thy people. p. xxxiv.
Lesson II.